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Is this normal??..freaking out please help!

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I posted a question earlier about sex hurting now 7 weeks post partum. A brief summary; I suffered a 3rd degree tear and did get stitches. My Dr gave me the go ahead for sex at my 6 week check but it hurts and we haven't made much progress! I tried the advice that was given in response to my first question and started to massage the scar tissue but something felt weird so I got a mirror and looked. There is a piece of skin that looks like it's just kind of hanging..almost like a skin tag but it's obviously because of how I was stitched! Surely that's not normal?! I'm so freaked out by it and am sure that is part of the reason sex hurts now! What do I do? Please help!

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The peice of skin hanging down is actually normal, it sometimes happens when you have to get stitched up from an apisiotomy or tearing. I tore big time when I had my daughter and had the same thing happen, and just got it removed. The pain while having sex isnt unusual either. I didnt stop feeling pain till I was ten weeks postpartum.

call your dr and tell her about it. I believe i gave you the advice about the massaging so i'm glad I did becuase if you hadn't you wouldn't have found that. I did not experience that but I could see how that would effect sex. I would totally call your Dr and see if it can be removed. This is good you caught it so quickly though so maybe you can have it fix and maybe sex will get better. I hope that was the issue and you can have it fix and get back to buisness.

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